Case Study A: Anna. O
Bertha Pappenheim, who was given the pseudonym, "Anna O.," is a perfect example of a case study dealing with somatoform disorder. Specifically, she suffered from conversion disorder, which is a set of "neurological symptoms such as weakness, sensory disturbance and attacks that look like epilepsy but which cannot be attributed to a known neurological disease." (Wikipedia.org, 2006) Pappenheim suffered from epilepsy, she lost control over half of her body including paralysis in her arm. She was psychoanalyzed by Josef Breuer, who co-wrote the book Studies on Hysteria with Sigmund Freud. It is important to note Pappenheim's later work as a sign of her dedication as a person she traveled "widely in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, often experiencing hardship, if not danger, to inspect brothels." (Wikipedia.org, 2006) This sense of dedication, which in that case was used to combat the spread of prostitution, could in fact be a key personality trait as to......
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